Posts tagged books to read
NOVEMBER 2025 READING LIST

Daughters of the Winter Queen begins the legacy of the current British throne. William Stoner leads a passive life as a farmer’s son turned English professor, enduring a loveless marriage and a difficult career. Living By Fiction, a collection of meditative essays about the spiritual process of writing.

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OCTOBER 2025 READING LIST

Immersed in the life of forest animals in Bambi. The tale of Joan of Arc and the formidable Yolanda of Aragon in The Maiden and the Queen. One family in Provence produced Four Queens who ruled in Europe. The determined reign of Joanna I in The Lady Queen. A dystopian YA about The 100 teens sent to Earth a century after a nuclear war.

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JUNE 2025 READING LIST

Upstream: Selected Essays studies the natural world. On Writing (And Writings) expands on C.S. Lewis’s views on the practice. Read Like a Writer dissects the written word. A reflective letter on faith and father-son relationships is explored in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead.

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MAY 2025 READING LIST

Exploring the natural world and human meaning in Teaching a Stone to Talk. Godfrey experiences a midlife crisis in The Professor’s House as he moves into a new home but clings to his old study in the attic. A Portuguese Jesuit endures intense torture, confronting a crisis of faith in Silence.

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MARCH 2025 READING LIST

Relentless ambition in the life of Mary Anne Clark, a story inspired by du Maurier's great-great-grandmother. A strange, wonderful, and relatable tale of man’s experience on Mars in The Martian Chronicles. The question of legitimacy is revealed on a deathbed in The Dead Secret.

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